Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
Magic, an AI startup creating models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks, has raised a large tranche of cash from investors including ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In a blog post on Thursday, Magic said that it closed a $320 million fundraising round with contributions from
Read moreUber cozies up to more AV companies, Canoo loses another founder and Waymo sees potential in teen riders
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! The EV industry sure is rough and tumble these days. And it’s affecting every company, from the legacy automakers like Ford to
Read moreApple event 2024: How to watch the iPhone 16 launch
Apple is likely to unveil its iPhone 16 series of phones and maybe even some Apple Watches at its Glowtime event on September 9. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
Codeium, a startup developing an AI-powered tool to rival GitHub Copilot, has raised $150 million at a $1.25 billion valuation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Here’s why AI has a hard time spelling ‘strawberry’
Is AI going to take my job one day? I hope not. But in the meantime, I can do something that ChatGPT can’t: I can spell the word “strawberry.” Once again, some posts are circulating around social media that expose how high-powered AI text generators fail to know how to
Read moreFlying through Sea-Tac’s hacked airport
Several days after the Port of Seattle announced a “possible” cyberattack on its systems, Sea-Tac Airport is still largely offline, causing chaos among travelers and acting as a standing warning against taking security lightly. Ask me how I know. The outage resulting from the recent hack has not, fortunately, caused
Read moreThe guy who sued NAR over real estate fees has co-founded a startup
One of the people who successfully sued the National Association of Realtors (NAR) to change real estate commissions has co-founded a new real estate startup. It all began in 2017 when Josh Sitzer and his wife listed their home for sale in Kansas City. The couple was frustrated by the
Read moreThe negative binomial distribution and Pascal’s triangle
The Poisson probability distribution gives a simple, elegant model for count data. You can even derive from certain assumptions that data must have a Poisson distribution. Unfortunately reality doesn’t often go along with those assumptions. A Poisson random variable with mean λ also has variance λ. But it’s often the
Read moreRussian government hackers found using exploits made by spyware companies NSO and Intellexa
Google said the findings were an example of how exploits developed by spyware makers can end up in the hands of "dangerous threat actors." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreSocial network Butterflies AI adds a feature that turns you into an AI character
Butterflies AI, the new social network where humans and AIs interact with each other, is launching a new Clones feature that turns you into an AI character. This latest addition builds on a feature launched to the public back in June that lets users create AI personas, called Butterflies, that
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